Top 20 'How To' Google Searches Revealed

We've all been there – you're sick and can't sleep so naturally, you start Googling your symptoms at 3am – only to find out that you're in fact dying a horrible, painful death.

Anyway, the Google Trends team has created a site dedicated to analysing the most asked questions globally on the search engine – and some of the most popular 'how to' searches are surprising.

Google searches that begin with "how to" are on the rise, growing by 140% in the last 13 years and among those searches, it seems fruit flies are a worldwide problem and turns out there's a lot of people who don't know how to boil an egg.

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In comparison to 2016, losing weight was in the top five last year and it's still Googled a lot now – but people are no longer Googling 'how to play Pokémon Go' (so last year, literally) and 'how to vote for the referendum' for obvious reasons.

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